ML24211A148
| ML24211A148 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/28/2024 |
| From: | Huffman C, Huffman M - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| NRC-2024-0076, 89FR53659 00055 | |
| Download: ML24211A148 (1) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 7/29/24, 12:42 PM Received: July 28, 2024 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. lz5-mb34-swgl Comments Due: July 29, 2024 Submission Type: API Docket: NRC-2024-0076 Notice of Intent to Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare an Environmental Assessment Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC and Holtec Palisades, LLC; Palisades Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 Comment On: NRC-2024-0076-0001 Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC, and Holtec Palisades, LLC; Palisades Nuclear Plant; Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare an Environmental Assessment Document: NRC-2024-0076-DRAFT-0055 Comment on FR Doc # 2024-14112 Submitter Information Name: Mary Huffman Address:
Indianapolis, IN, 46220 Phone:317-714-8753 General Comment We live very near the former Palisades Nuclear Power plant that Entegy closed in 2022 even though there was a license extension in effect until 2031. Entegy did so because the cost to bring the plant up to safety standards well exceeded any revenue that could be earned. Simply put: IT BECAME UNECONOMICAL.
Please take the time to consider the following facts as presented by Arnie Gunderson, of Fairwinds Energy Education. Arnie is an expert in the area of nuclear power - please don't take my word only regarding his expertise, simply google Arnie Gundersen to read and understand his extensive credentials regarding anything Nuclear Power.
Please consider the below facts (per Arnie):
-built in 1964 to last only 40 years. Sadly, the incorrect welding material (that holds the reactor together) was used which resulted in the reactor being brittle causing many, many incidents of serious problems -
too numerous to detail.
-because of the continuing problems, Entegy pulled the plug and left. If the plant were to ever be reopened, many deferred maintenance procedures needed to be performed. To name a few:
-reactor with wrong weld, needed a new head - not done
-should have put chemicals to the water part of the process to prevent rust - not done
-even now, many precautions in case of a start up again should be ongoing - not being done
-all the intelligence of the Palisades Power Plant was let go, including the operators, engineers and the maintenance experts - all gone.
-Holtec (trying to gain federal money to start back up Palisades) has never operated a nuclear power plant - tearing them down is what they do.
-In fact, a Holtec CFO whistle blower was asked by the President of Holtec to inflate the ballance sheet by 3/4 of a billion dollars - a criminal act 7/29/24, 12:42 PM blob:https://www.fdms.gov/73644ff0-1fe7-4c93-8790-6048dcbc88fa blob:https://www.fdms.gov/73644ff0-1fe7-4c93-8790-6048dcbc88fa 1/2 SUNSI Review Complete Template=ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Laura Willingham, Mary Richmond, Antoinette Walker-Smith, Marlayna Doell, Mary Neely Comment (55)
Publication Date:6/27/2024 Citation: 89 FR 53659
-In conclusion,if Palisades were allowed to start back up, our beautiful state of Michigan would be LESS SAFE, with the risk of a fall-out plume that would travel 150 miles across the state. Holtec is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars from the state of Michigan for this endeavor that would put us all at SERIOUS RISK.
Please do not allow this to happen. Please do your research, and you will come to the same conclusion as Arnie Gundersen: this would be a disaster in the making.
Thank you for your time, Mary and Chuck Huffman 28595 Ravine Circle, Covert, Michigan 49043, 317-714-8753 7/29/24, 12:42 PM blob:https://www.fdms.gov/73644ff0-1fe7-4c93-8790-6048dcbc88fa blob:https://www.fdms.gov/73644ff0-1fe7-4c93-8790-6048dcbc88fa 2/2